BRIEFING: The 11-meter RHIB is a highly maneuverable,
turbocharged, diesel-powered tactical craft made of a
glass-reinforced plastic structure with an inflatable tube
mechanically fastened to the glass fiber-reinforced structure.
Two variants of the craft are in service or on order: eight with
an enclosed cabin and another for the LPD 17 ships. The boats
are used to support maritime interdiction operations.

NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE 11-METER
RIGID-HULL INFLATABLE BOAT (NSW RHIB)
BRIEFING: The 11-meter NSW RHIBs are high-speed,
high-buoyancy, extreme-weather craft with the primary
mission of SEAL insertion and extraction. Constructed of composites with an inflatable tube gunwale made of reinforced
fabric, they can operate in heavy seas and winds up to 45 knots.

BRIEFING: The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
ordered on Feb. 10, 2014, an indefinite quantity of CCM MK 1s,
designed to be clandestine, agile and adaptive craft to insert
and extract SOF forces. The CCM will replace the MK V SOC
and the NSW RHIB. SOCOM has a requirement for 30 CCMs.
The contract potentially is worth $400 million through 2021.

BRIEFING: The Fleet Survey Team, a rapid-response unit
designed to meet combatant commander requests for
hydrographic survey of poorly charted areas, acquired two
Defender-class boats in March 2009. The boats have climate-controlled cabins and are deployable in a C- 130 transport aircraft. The boats can deploy echo-sounders and side-scan sonar
with a winch system.